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Letter "S" » submission
«Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.»
«Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.»
«Let us teach that the honor of a nation consists not in the forced submission of other states, but in equal laws and free institutions, in cultivated fields and prosperous cities; in the development of intellectual and moral power, in the diffusion of knowledge, in magnanimity and justice, in the virtues and blessings of peace.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
cultivated, diffusion, force field, intellectual development, moral force, other states, prosperous, submission
«Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind,
Men,
Pride
| Keywords:
feeble, impieties, impiety, insolence, submission
«One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
in so far, keep out, prison, public opinion, so far, starvation, submission, submissions, tyranny, unnecessary, voluntary
«One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
insofar, keep out, opinion, prison, public, public opinion, respect, starvation, submission, submissions, tyrannies, tyranny, unnecessary, voluntary
«REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
popular opinion, popular vote, referendum, submission
«REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. In a republic, the foundation of public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to. There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
anarchy, despotism, enforce, governing, graduations, inherited, lessening, optional, republic, submission, The Anarchy, whence, whither
«Submission to one wrong brings on another»
Author: Latin Proverb
| Keywords:
another, bringing up, brings, bring on, submission, submissions, wrong
«Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
give rise, inexorable, invincible, revolt, submission
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